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There are real-world examples of non-internet networks being created in authoritarian regimes. One example I've read about is in Cuba [1] but I presume there are others.

[1] https://restofworld.org/2020/the-life-and-death-of-snet-hava...

The term you're looking for is "dns tunneling".

I can't answer your question about Docker or Podman, but in Kubernetes there is the NetworkPolicy API which is designed for exactly this use-case. I'm sure it uses Linux native tooling (iptables, nftables, etc) under the hood, so it's at least within the real of feasible that those tools can be used for this purpose.

I think the idea is GitHub actions calls "build.sh", or "deploy.sh" etc. Those scripts contain all of the logic necessary to build or deploy or whatever. You can run those scripts locally for testing / development, or from CI for prod / auditing.

I think ToS violations can also run afoul of CFAA.

>gypsy moths

The common name is "spongy moths" now, to avoid a racial epithet.

"In July 2021 the Entomological Society of America decided to remove the name "gypsy moth" from its Common Names of Insects and Related Organisms List as "hurtful to the Romani people", since gypsy is considered an ethnic slur by some Romani people." [1]

[1] https://www.entsoc.org/entomological-society-america-discont...

You can definitely beat that for $30. Hit the thrift stores and you can find vintage machines that will greatly outperform this. You may need to replace a belt on some, but many are working just fine.

> FiiO CP-13, and while the quality still isn't great

The sad part is that the quality of modern cassette players is actually decidedly worse than their vintage counterparts. There's essentially only one company producing the actual mechanism (Tanashin) and they're cheaply made of low quality materials (plastic flywheels etc.). That's the main reason that the vintage machines are still fetching higher prices. Also I don't think any modern machines have Dolby B-C noise reduction, HX Pro, automatic track seek/skip, and whatever other fancy features you could find in the likes of a high end Sony or Nakamichi deck.

What's the deal with all of the typos?

I assume that was the joke. Also, the use of parentheses makes it stand out from the normal bracketed use as an attempt at humor.

Gopher still requires the Internet. I know it's pretty common to conflate "the Internet" with "the World Wide Web", but there are actually other protocols out there (like Gopher).

You may not want to, but you can use public certs and URLs on your intranet. You can't necessarily do http-01 challenges, but DNS based challenges are feasible. There are also other ACME providers which will let you skip challenges for DCVd domains.

I had two yellowjacket nests in the wood siding of my house this summer. Several cans of foaming spray had no effect since it couldn't penetrate far enough inside. I found a random forum thread where someone suggested using Sevin insecticide powder on the openings. It took a week and a half of daily applications using a paintbrush, but it seemed to be effective. Less expensive than calling an exterminator, and I have most of the can of powder left for next time.

Yes, pouring more heat into the already warming oceans is surely a safe plan.

> Nintendo does not get to march into my home and smash my games because they want me to buy the new one instead of playing my old ones.

This is a really interesting example to choose because the new Nintendo Switch 2 cartridges have literally no data storage except to hold a license key. The content has to be downloaded from their servers, which they absolutely will take offline eventually.

SMURF - Socialist Men Under Red Father

I prefer "Mozzarella Foxfire".

> everything that originated on the internet can most likely be found there again

I would that this were true. I guess it depends on what you mean by "the internet", but there's a reason the Internet Archive exists. Sure, you don't need to back up your recent Firefox installer or your Debian ISO but lots of important and valuable data can't be found on the internet anymore. There are very valid reasons that groups like Archiveteam [1] do what they do, not to mention recent headlines like individuals losing access to their entire cloud storage [2].

[1] https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Main_Page [2] https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/06/aws_wipes_ten_years/

I'm partial to "com" - short for computer, or communicator. Hasn't caught on yet though.

Make the bucket requester-pays https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Reques...

They make USB KVM devices. Run an application on your computer to send input / receive output. Then you can use whatever laptop you want. That said, I've only used them on Windows, so drivers might be an issue.

The Traefik dashboard is pretty helpful for visualizing what's happening. Also their error message are usually pretty clear about what's wrong.

Bug: Clippy does not appear! https://github.com/ropensci/writexl/issues/68

I've been using BirdNet-Pi for a while and it's great fun. I'm a little confused about the commercial offering from BirdWeather - the PUC looks like a neat product, but I understood most of the BirdNet stuff to be Creative Commons NonCommercial. Maybe there's some nuance about how they're using it, or maybe some pieces have a more lenient open source license?

I'm interested in learning how to do this kind of work. I ultimately plan to install it in a van or trailer, but I'm thinking of starting with some kind of portable solar system to use while camping. Do you have any recommendations for resources to learn about these types of systems?

> And unlike video streaming platforms, most audio platforms have “most” content that people want to listen to.

I'm worried about the potential for this to change. Netflix used to have a much larger catalogue, especially for movies. Nowadays the things I'm interested in may be spread across a dozen different services.

Currently it seems that Spotify, and Youtube music (probably Apple music too, though I've not tried it) have almost everything I can think of. But I can certainly see a possible future where these services get much more fragmented.

For instance, I know Apple is already pushing a classical only streaming service. Could/would they some day remove classical from their other streaming services and instead offer a higher priced bundle deal? I think it's possible.

But then you have an entirely different challenge if you want to use a project that only provides a chart as a deployment package / docs.

> For a 'solution', you have to build a lot of it.

This is true even in the 'managed' k8s world (like EKS). They'll automatically configure EBS storage for you, but that's not sufficient for non-trivial workloads. Same with networking, logging, or metrics. I like that EKS means I don't have to worry about etcd backups and restores, but it's not a production ready platform by any stretch.

You have a few typos on that page:

Minimzed client tracking on our websites (no 3rd party trakcers)

I believe that should be "Minimized" instead of "Minimzed", "trackers" instead of "trakcers".

I didn't read the whole thing carefully - you might want to spellcheck the entire page.

Nakamichi is widely regarded as the highest quality manufacturer. The decks can be expensive and some of them are extremely complex to service.

/r/cassetteculture is a decent resource for info.